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Embassy of Canada in Peru
Embassy of Canada in Peru
Location	Lima, Peru
Address	Av. Bolognesi 228
Opened	October 21, 1944
Ambassador	Louis Marcotte
Jurisdiction	Peru; Bolivia
Website	Official website

The Embassy of Canada in Peru (French: Ambassade du Canada au Pérou, Spanish: Embajada de Canadá en Perú) represents the permanent diplomatic mission of Canada in Peru. The embassy is also accredited to Bolivia.

The current Canadian ambassador to Peru is Louis Marcotte.^[1]

History

Canada and Peru established diplomatic relations on 21 October 1944.^[2] Initially, relations between both nations took place in multilateral organizations. In May 1970, Canadian forces arrived in Peru soon after the Ancash earthquake to deliver humanitarian aid for two months in response to the request by President Juan Velasco Alvarado.^[2]

The Canadian Embassy was established on October 21, 1944.^[3]

In February 1997, during the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima; Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori flew to Toronto and met with the Japanese Prime Minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto, to discuss Peru's handling of the hostage siege. Canada was chosen as a meeting place for the two heads of state because its Ambassador to Lima, Anthony Vincent, was a member of a commission of guarantors established to oversee negotiations to end the crisis.^[4]

In March 2018, Peruvian President, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, was impeached from power. Martín Vizcarra was Ambassador of Peru to Canada and simultaneously was First Vice President of Peru. Upon the impeachment of President Kuczynski, Vizcarra left Canada and returned to Peru to take up the Presidency. In April 2018, Prime Minister Trudeau returned to Peru to attend the 8th Summit of the Americas in Lima. During his visit, Prime Minister Trudeau met with President Vizcarra and both leaders discussed enhancing bilateral commercial relations and underscored the many opportunities that exist for collaboration between Canadian and Peruvian companies. The Prime Minister and President also discussed the Crisis in Venezuela.^[5]

Ambassadors

This Canadian diplomatic representation is headed by a head of mission who bears the title of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary.^[3]


#	Name	Title	Nomination	Letter of credence	End
1st	Jean François Léon Henri Laureys	AEP	1944/06/21	1944/10/21	1946/11
2nd	Freeman Massey Tovell	CA	1946/11	-	1947/06/21
3rd	James Alexander Strong	AEP	1947/03/18	1947/06/21	1949/05
4th	James Murray Cook	CA	1949/05	-	1950/09/27
5th	Joseph Jacques Janvier Émile Vaillancourt	AEP	1950/02/10	1950/09/27	-
6th	Donald Harry Cheney	CA	1955/01	-	1958/09/13
7th	Evan Benjamin Rogers	AEP	1955/06/23	1955/08/18	1958/01/25
8th	Alfred John Pick	AEP	1958/06/26	1958/09/13	1962/04/03
9th	Freeman Massey Tovell	AEP	1962/09/27	1962/11/07	1965/10/19
10th	Joseph François-Xavier Houde	AEP	1965/09/02	1965/12/07	1970/08/05
11th	Pierre Edgar Joseph Charpentier	AEP	1970/06/18	1970/10/12	1972/08/11
12th	Pierre L. Trottier	AEP	1973/09/04	1973/10/17	1976/07/06
13th	Ormond Wilson Dier	AEP	1976/05/27	1976/11/24	1979/08/25
14th	Jean-Yves Grenon	AEP	1979/04/04	1979/10/24	1982/08/20
15th	Michael Richard Bell	AEP	1981/07/29	1981/10/06	1985/06
16th	Keith Arthur Bezanson	AEP	1985/08/07	1985/09/06	1988/04
17th	Margaret Anne Charles	AEP	1988/08/11	1988/09/26	-
18th	James Darrell Leach	AEP	1990/09/12	1990/09/19	-
19th	Anthony Vincent	AEP	1992/02/11	1994/03/09	1997/06/18
20th	Graeme C. Clark	AEP	1997/07/10	1997/08/19	2001/08/27
21st	Hugues Rousseau	AEP	2001/07/16	2001/09/28	2004/08/15
22nd	Geneviève des Rivières	AEP	2004/08/09	2004/08/28	2008
23rd	Richard Lecoq	AEP	2008/07/04	2009/01/08	-
24th	Patricia Fortier	AEP	2012/11/08	2012/12/13	2015
25th	Gwyneth Kutz	AEP	2015/07/31	2016/01/21	2019/09
26th	Ralph Jansen	AEP	2019/08/26	2019/10/23	-